The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Quiot Manufacturing.
"During the past year, Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on-the-job accidents than at the nearby Panoply Industries plant, where the work shifts are one hour shorter than ours. Experts say that significant contributing factors in many on-the-job accidents are fatigue and sleep deprivation among workers. Therefore, to reduce the number of on-the-job accidents at Quiot and thereby increase productivity, we should shorten each of our three work shifts by one hour so that employees will get adequate amounts of sleep."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
According to the author of this memo, he is complaining about l on-job accidents due to the longer working hours. In Quiot Manufacturing. He is supporting his statement by comparing the incident with another industry called “Panoply Industries plant” where shifting hours are slightly better than this primary Manufacturing company. To analyse this, I have two questions that should be made clear.
First of all, The author is assuming that workers of both the companies(Manufacture&Industries respectively) do the same work. So, are they doing the same work? May be workers of both the entities have different works. That means Panoply - workers may have work, which is a lot safer than the Quiot workers. However this doesn’t mean that longer working hours means more the production. Because if workers had enough time to sleep and recovery, production will be more efficient. According to research a human body needs recovery (sleep) so that body functions are well and good ,so no recovery means damaging our won functions thereby causing production delay.
Second of all, Author of this memo is assuming that lesser the working hours means more efficiently work is done. There no proper evidence of first assumption, although rest is necessary. But there is no evidence of “ Lesser the shifts the more the production” he is supporting this by comparing it to another industries working hours. Which might be a flaw.
And the author is concluding that to reduce number of shifts so workers can get enough sleep. But with the assumptions made for this conclusions is a flaw.
In my conclusion the argument is flawed due to its reliance on unwanted assumptions made , if the author is able to provide answers to the above questions and offer more evidence. Then there is a chance of strongly agreeing to this argument.
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- The following appeared in a memo from a vice president of Quiot Manufacturing During the past year Quiot Manufacturing had 30 percent more on the job accidents than at the nearby Panoply Industries plant where the work shifts are one hour shorter than our 50
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 302 350
No. of Characters: 1474 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.169 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.881 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.752 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 102 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.766 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.522 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...questions that should be made clear. First of all, The author is assuming tha...
^^^
Line 3, column 310, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... is a lot safer than the Quiot workers. However this doesn’t mean that longer working h...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 356, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hours'' or 'hour's'?
Suggestion: hours'; hour's
...r this doesn’t mean that longer working hours means more the production. Because if w...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 578, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...so that body functions are well and good ,so no recovery means damaging our won fu...
^^
Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ions thereby causing production delay. Second of all, Author of this memo is a...
^^^
Line 5, column 73, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'hours'' or 'hour's'?
Suggestion: hours'; hour's
...emo is assuming that lesser the working hours means more efficiently work is done. Th...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 338, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Which” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...it to another industries working hours. Which might be a flaw. And the author ...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...orking hours. Which might be a flaw. And the author is concluding that to red...
^^^^
Line 7, column 133, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...leep. But with the assumptions made for this conclusions is a flaw. In my c...
^^^^
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s made for this conclusions is a flaw. In my conclusion the argument is fla...
^^^^
Line 9, column 93, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ts reliance on unwanted assumptions made , if the author is able to provide answer...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, well, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 301.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10299003322 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08991625793 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.544850498339 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 459.0 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.8821897123 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.8421052632 119.503703932 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8421052632 23.324526521 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.47368421053 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191865192106 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583344949879 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0634973402001 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0985745191729 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0790072495832 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 14.3799401198 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 48.3550499002 134% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.197005988 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.0 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 12.3882235529 44% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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